Neo modifications?

[bryanarchy]

Yo yo,

I got a neo gold coming my way which will be my second. I'm thinking that i may try to do some modifications or something to it. I'm not really sure what to try though. I thought about painting the inside of the transparent plastic but maybe that's not so cool. I was also considering painting the gold a different color. I maybe into something more radical, but i am clueless.

Any suggestions?

[johnnyhaggis]

WHen I get my Dr. Katagai which is a silver neo with a katagai head, I was planning on painting the robot parts black and the transparent parts transparent red. That might be cool.

[hypnotator]

I saw a site once where a guy had taken a Neo apart and painted the inside surfaces of the transparent plastic with Tamiya clear paint. The smaller pieces like the feet and forearms don't come apart so he painted the outside of those. It looked okay from the photos but he had chosen a smoked grey colour not very dissimilar to the smoked black Neo. I don't know if Tamiya do a clear orange paint but that's the colour I'd choose, chiefly because there isn't a Walder that colour, and also I like orange. Johnny's purple machinery Cyborg 99 looks cool (see Cyborgs around the world thread) and I'd be tempted to do both the transparent plastic and the machine parts for a full-on custom. You would need to choose a colour for the machinery that shows through the transparent colour, though. Green machinery behind red transparent plastic would look brown, I think. I would paint the transparent plastic first, then try out colours for the machinery and hold them up behind it. For the machinery, I would use modelling enamel paint. Mixing silver with a colour gives it a metallic look.

[johnnyhaggis]

Here's an interesting custom www9.wind.ne.jp/aj23/cyborg(re)3.html

This site has alot of cool microman customs, often made from scratch!

CUT AND PASTE THE URL - the (re) part is part of the url - otherwise you'll go to a different page on the guy's site

[bryanarchy]

i'm also thinking of sculpting guts and the like, maybe a new head...

[heavyarmscustom]

hello
I just want to warn you guy about the Neo henshin mods.
I wanted to repaint a henshin and make the inner head eye's glow.

this was my first and last attempt at this!

it starts out simple enough paint all clear parts with Mr. color Aqueous smoke(clear) blue.
so I went to town.
I started by painting the inside of the pieces(minus feet and hands) with non thinned paint. that was a no-no as it left brush marks. so I thinned it well I found out that the paint really didn't like to adhere to the vinyl based plastic and it was a hell of a time trying to get the coats to come out even.

it took an entire bottle of paint at a 1 to 1 thinner ratio to get it covered inside and out as I had to add definition buy letting the paint run in to the surface detail.

I painted the chrome innards and head with a thinned out light green to off set the chrome blue.

now I have found out Do not paint the head or hands I did this two years ago and the hand/head are still super tacky to this day.

I'have thought of using an acrylic dull coat but have given up on this project for now.


now on to the lighting up of the inner head eye's.


this was a simple plan made in to a nightmare


I wanted to thread two fiber optic from the chest through the neck and into the eye's.
sounds simple.


well I was hopping to just get the Fiber close enough to the LED to get the right glow at the other end.
Never happened .
tried to glue the things too the LED.
they broke off.
So I just drilled into the the LED and socketed the fiber into it and glued it in.

Problem one finished

now I had to thread the fiber through the neck and into the head
I thought I could remove the neck joint and drill through the top where the neck meets the head.
I didn't know the convoluted process that made the neck joint out to be

I had to drill through the top of the Chrome innards snake the two lines through. the neck joint is this flat piece and hemisphere connected to make the rotation and up and down motion.
I didn't realize that there was a peg that connected the head with the neck at the time so as I was working on the fiber getting through the neck I found that the wouldn't fit do to the size of the head post. well that was and pain but I went with the drilling of two small holes on ether side of the neck post.
I got that done and drilled out the back of the eye's and glued the fiber to them

now after all that can you guess what happened next.

the head would not come back together as the bent fiber was sticking out to much I tried to force the head to close but I just broke the fiber and had to drill out the leftovers in the eyes.

having no where to go I tried the only thing I knew
FIRE!
as the fiber optic are based on a clear plastic I took my soldering iron and a two small but taped hemostats and heated the ends so they would bend just right and they did with some time and lots of love.
finally I got the head together and I got down to painting the thing.

the only thing I think I did right was to leave extra Fiber optics in the chest for what I though would be for slack do to moving of the head.

and I do not like the paint. I wanted a deeper Blue as it looks it's a tint of blue

that was my first and last Henshin mod .
hope you could find some insight to this rant .
and it helps some one in the future

clifton

[heavyarmscustom]

Oh Yes and the eye's barely glow when the Led is turned on

clifton

[johnnyhaggis]

That is a hilarious as it is tragic! At least you learned something! I think you should do the glass pain with an airbrush, which of course most people don't have so as to avoid all the streaks. The other way is to pour it in and swish it around and then spill it out.

I painted the inside parts of the cyborg 99 with regular latex spray paint and that was fine. Do they have spray paint glass paints?

[bryanarchy]

clifton,

I don't suppose you have shots of this mod?

b

[muton53398]

Bryanarchy,

chroming could be the way to go! Expensive though and you couldn't do the head.

For paint I'd probably take a few pictures and mess around on the computer photoshop or similar until i got a combination i was happy with.

Once you've started painting there's no going back.

Check out this link i found, a nice paint job

www.edit.ne.jp/~sashida/UDCD/MAKING_OF_CYBORG1.html

[heavyarmscustom]

hey guy's

first off this link and three pages in there is a dye used
could any one translate the page and tell me what brand or what kind of purple dye that is

As for the picture I don't know how to post (a little backards) or have a site to link from but I could give it to Johnnyhaggis and he could post it
I'll ask and send the picture to him.
Hope you like it

clifton

[bryanarchy]

taken from:www.edit.ne.jp/~sashida/IPPIN/cyborg.html

Any idea if the one on the right is a modification? 'Cause i think i know what i'm gonna do...

[muton53398]

I always use the babelfish to translate, sometimes it works, sometimes not,

put the full link of the page you want to translate in the lower box and select the to and from language,

world.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

Hope this helps!

Muton53398

[johnnyhaggis]

Here's Clifton's modification pictures - he gave them to me to post.

They don't look bad actually, except the hands I think, but even those are ok - maybe it looks worse in person? Where's the legs and head etc?

[muton53398]

What about painting the insides with a UV reflective paint, i'm sure it would look great under a black light in a display case, with the innards glowing.

In fact i might try that myself.

[heavyarmscustom]

hey guy's
the green didn't come out in the picture.
but the outer shell blue went on rather smooth. I have the lower legs and outer head but I just wanted to get as much into the picture as possable.
I will try to get the other's ina pic soon
Have to get Batterys(sp)
clifton

[johnnyhaggis]

Hey Clifton - does the glass paint scratch off or come off easily? Is it sticky? Whatabout on the hands?

[heavyarmscustom]

hey johnathan

I used an entire bottle of Gunze Sangyo Aqueous Hobby Color Smoke blue #96.

It's a resin based acrylic paint mush like Tamiya paint's.

I have used a number of water based window tints on other clear plastic projects and they tend to bunch up or leave really bad brush marks.
hope that helps
clifton